Senior/Staff Technical Product Manager (DoD)

Skylight Digital LLC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Skylight Digital LLC is seeking a Senior/Staff Technical Product Manager to lead cross-functional teams on a critical Department of Defense digital modernization project. This full-time remote position focuses on user-centered product strategies, leveraging Agile methodologies to enhance government operations and public services.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) match up to 10%

20 vacation days and 11 federal holidays

Flexible work environment

Annual professional development allowance

Qualifications

• Proven ability to define outcome-driven product strategies.
• Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Strong collaboration skills across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team to build user-centered solutions.
• Manage product initiative's direction and priorities.
• Facilitate team ceremonies and stakeholder engagements.

Skills

Lean product principles

User research

Human-centered design methods

Collaboration

Scrum methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Senior/Staff Technical Product Manager (DoD)

United States

About Skylight

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.

We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world.

If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.

The work we do matters.

About the job

At Skylight, product managers are responsible for strategy, planning, execution, stakeholder management, and team health. Product managers partner with researchers, designers, engineers, client stakeholders, and others to inform their product decisions. At a high level, it’s the product manager’s job to figure out what to build next and why.

Skylight is hiring for a cross-functional team supporting a high-impact Department of Defense (DoD) digital modernization effort. This initiative focuses on strengthening product leadership, human-centered design, and systems engineering across multiple agile product lines that deliver secure DevSecOps capabilities to mission-critical users. The program supports numerous digital services, ranging from developer enablement platforms to container repositories and edge computing tools.

As a member of this engagement, you’ll help stand up a team that brings unbiased product strategy, scalable service design practices, and rigorous systems thinking to one of the most technically complex ecosystems in the federal government. Your work will shape how this organization aligns its value streams to customer needs, improves enterprise architecture and planning, and builds internal capacity through enablement of its civilian and military leaders.

Skylight’s team will support multiple agile product lines and deliver measurable improvements in team alignment, efficiency, and delivery outcomes. This is a unique opportunity to help modernize how the government builds and scales software, with direct impact on national security outcomes.

What you’ll do

• Lead a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, engineers, and subject matter experts to build and ship user-centered, scalable solutions
• Translate complex user needs and mission requirements into clear product strategies, including vision, success metrics, roadmap, and backlog
• Manage the direction, scope, and priorities of the product initiative, building from user research to minimum viable products to scalable solutions
• Author and prioritize user stories, plan releases, and continuously iterate based on user feedback and technical constraints
• Facilitate team ceremonies such as planning meetings, stakeholder syncs, and retrospectives
• Use qualitative and quantitative feedback to guide product decisions and prioritize impact
• Work in close partnership with government teams to transfer digital skills and product knowledge throughout the course of the project
• Navigate organizational complexity to remove blockers, align teams, and advocate for agile, user-first practices

Ensure solutions integrate smoothly with existing government systems, policies, and security constraints

What we're looking for

• Understand lean product principles and how to apply them (e.g., minimum viable product) at various stages of the product life cycle in order to mitigate risk, validate assumptions, and amplify learning
• Proven ability to define outcome-driven product strategies grounded in problem framing, stakeholder goals, and user research
• Ability to break down complex scopes into manageable deliverables, lead prioritization, and execute against evolving product goals
• Experience using human-centered design methods to inform and iterate on product direction
• Strong collaboration skills across disciplines, especially working closely with design, engineering, and acquisition partners
• Ability to manage clients and stakeholders in a way that builds trust, alignment, and healthy environments for individuals and teams
• Strong familiarity with Scrum methodologies; prior experience as a Certified Scrum Master is highly desirable
• Familiarity with multiple delivery models (Agile, Lean, SAFe) and when to apply them effectively
• Ability to travel for work from time to time
• Ability to obtain a Common Access Card (CAC), including successful completion of a DoD background investigation

Nice-to-have qualifications

• Ability to support capacity-building through enablement, documentation, and knowledge transfer
• Federal systems experience supporting large-scale, modular DoD systems or DevSecOps platforms
• Civic tech background. Prior involvement in the civic tech space
• Remote teamwork. Experience collaborating effectively with distributed teams
• Existing or prior possession of a CAC with completed DoD background check

Don’t meet 100% of the criteria but think you can do the job? We’d love to chat anyway! We’re on a mission to build diverse teams, and studies have shown that women and marginalized folks are less likely to apply to jobs if they don’t check every box.

Other requirements

• All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories. Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment.
• You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.
• As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance.
• You may be required to complete a company background check successfully.
• Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute.

Position type

This is a full-time, exempt position

Location

This is a fully remote position.

We want to give you the most competitive salary possible. After all, you deserve it! To that end, we use the results of our interview process to determine what salary is most appropriate given your current level of seniority. For a Product Manager at Skylight, the current salary ranges are as follows:

• Associate Product Manager: $90,000–$125,000
• Senior Product Manager: $150,000–$185,000
• Staff Product Manager: $170,000–$203,000

Your well-being is important to us, so we focus on supporting you in a variety of ways:

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
• Paid time off, including 20 vacation days, 11 federal holidays, and flexible sick leave
• Up to 12 weeks paid time off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents
• Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
• Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
• Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year
• Access up to $1,000 before payday to cover emergency expenses
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
• An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good

Interview tips

We want you to have a great interview experience with us! Here are some tips to help you prepare for a successful interview:

• Visit our join page to learn more about how our interview process works.
• Check out our Career Pathways framework to learn more about the different roles within Skylight and the skills needed to do them.
• If you’d like to request reasonable accommodations during the application or interviewing process, please contact our recruiting team at [e-mail] .

We participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you’re authorized to work in the U.S.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.

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